For our flight early this morning from JFK to Rochester (or whenever it was!), I was TSA Pre-Approved while my wife wasn’t. (Usually, for some reason, it’s the other way around.)
That meant that I was going to be able to whiz through Security without the intrusive searches that usually occur in post-‘Usama American airports.
So she let me carry her bag through (with the computer in it).
Unfortunately, she’d forgotten to take a bottle of water out. And that’s very much against the rules, because TSA fears that bottles of liquid might be bombs.
So, when the x-ray machine found an anomaly, I was pulled to the side while one of the TSA people went through the bag and removed the water.
He was nice about it. We even joked a bit.
But he missed the second bottle of water in the bag (which I also didn’t know about). I found that one when we reached our motel room.
So TSA batted .500 today.
That’s fantastic for major league baseball. (The great Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941, but that season was the last time — nearly three quarters of a century ago — that any player in either the National League or the American League has hit more than .400.)
But finding only half of the relatively large bottles of potentially explosive liquids in my bag?
That’s potentially lethal.
Seriously.
Posted from Victor, New York
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